I have a strange new fan. I’ve directed him to my writing on SCOTUS, which talks about my legal views on courtpacking. But now he keeps tweeting and demanding that I give my personal opinion on the practice. https://twitter.com/conncarroll/status/1314353548340199424

And this isn’t just some strange man on the internet. It’s the communications director for Senator Mike Lee.
He’s upset, it appears, that I expressed surprise at his employer’s tweet from earlier today in which he suggested that democracy should not be the goal of this country.

In a strange way, it reminds me of Trump and Pence insisting that Biden and Harris have to publicly proclaim their positions on court packing during the debates. Maybe this guy saw analysis saying that was an effective debate question and so he thought he should try it on Twitter

Of course, unlike Biden and Harris, I’m not running for elected office. I’m just a law professor who tweets. And while I have a legal opinion about court packing, I don’t know what the best or appropriate policy would be.

But apparently this isn’t enough for Mike Lee’s comms director. He’s randomly @‘ing me on tweets demanding that I tell him my “position” on court packing.
Apparently he feels entitled to this because I pointed out that he was misreading Federalist No. 10.

So that’s Twitter, folks. A Senator has a pretty bad tweet that gets him a bunch of negative press. But instead of addressing that, his comms director is quasi-stalking a law prof trying to get her to take a policy position so that he can discount her reading of James Madison.

In case you were wondering whether this thread would make him feel remotely embarrassed. https://twitter.com/conncarroll/status/1314367874471993348